Top stories in AI today: – Tavus’ Griffin passes for human on video calls
– Rowan’s Corner: My recurring AI performance review
– Is ChatGPT ‘Dots’ worth upgrading to Pro for?
– Google’s AI watermarks cross into the lab
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AI news roundup: Tavus Griffin, ChatGPT Dots, Google watermarks
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Tavus Griffin AI model passes video Turing test
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Impressive demo from Tavus of its new 'Human Interaction Model' named Griffin, which the company says passes the video Turing test.
— The Rundown AI (@TheRundownAI) 1 octobre 2026
48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human, up from under 3% for earlier models:pic.twitter.com/vLGOXELZ0kImpressive demo from Tavus of its new 'Human Interaction Model' named Griffin, which the company says passes the video Turing test. 48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human, up from under 3% for earlier models:
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DeepMind watermarks AI-designed proteins with detectable signatures
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Google just brought AI watermarking into the physical world.
— The Rundown AI (@TheRundownAI) 1 octobre 2026
DeepMind embedded detectable signatures in AI-designed proteins, and they still worked after being made in a lab.
The goal is to let DNA makers check that a design came from an AI model with safety guardrails: pic.twitter.com/EN11scQnm6Google just brought AI watermarking into the physical world. DeepMind embedded detectable signatures in AI-designed proteins, and they still worked after being made in a lab. The goal is to let DNA makers check that a design came from an AI model with safety guardrails:
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Top AI stories: Gemini 4 Argon, Meta’s Muse, White House AI day
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Top stories in AI today: – Gemini 4 Argon looks to return Google to the frontier
– Nate's Notebook: When judgment gets cheap
– How (and why) to set up Meta’s Muse Desktop
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White House Limits GPT-5.6, AI Avatar Confession, and More
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Top stories in AI today: – The White House limits GPT-5.6 release
– Rowan’s Corner: The AI avatar confession
– Give your AI agent a credit card (safely)
– Anthropic flags Alibaba’s ‘largest’ distillation attack
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OpenAI chip, cold cure, World Cup deals, Fable 5, and AI tools
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Top stories in AI today: – OpenAI designs its first custom AI chip
– Anthropic, OpenAI join $500M plan to kill colds
– Get World Cup ticket deals with AI price tracking
– The Fable 5 comeback starts taking shape
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OpenAI Unveils High-Performance Jalapeño AI Chip
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A spicy new AI chip has emerged. Jalapeño is OpenAI's first-generation chip, custom-built to run LLMs, boasting "substantially better" performance per watt than the current state of the art. Developed in just 9 months
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Sakana AI’s Fugu models use agent orchestration to reach Fable/Mythos levels
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Big release out of Japan’s Sakana AI. Its Fugu and Fugu Ultra models use agent orchestration of a variety of other models to reach Fable/Mythos levels on several benchmarks
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Disney and Adobe collaborate on AI training
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OpenAI cancelled its $1B Disney deal back in March, but the House of Mouse is still making AI moves.
— The Rundown AI (@TheRundownAI) 18 juin 2026
Earlier this week, Disney Imagineering announced a collaboration with @Adobe to train AI on its own art (Mickey, Frozen, Cars) to speed up theme-park design.
Today: Business… pic.twitter.com/wl4jC01rJAOpenAI canceled its $1 billion deal with Disney last March, but the House of Mouse continues to make AI advancements. Earlier this week, Disney Imagineering announced a collaboration with @Adobe to train AI on its own artwork.
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Z AI Unveils GLM-5.2 Model
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Chinese lab Z AI has just released GLM-5.2, an impressive new open-weights model featuring a 1-million-token context window. Benchmark comparisons place it between Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5 across multiple dimensions: 74.4 in coding